Make bootable usb drive with puppy on it from in Windows (with/without CD/DVD drive)

1.format your stick using the Fat16 or Fat32 file system. To do this you can Download and install the HP USB tool.
By running HPUSBFW.EXE with admin rights you can format the usb drive
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/26504.html

If you can read files on your usb drive you probably won't need to do this.

2.Download the Puppy Linux ISO.
3.Open the ISO using a program that can read iso images such as Izarc or winrar.

Extract the files from the ISO (or CD) to a folder on your harddrive, then to the root of your USB stick.
(There will be a single 'boot.images' directory amoung the other files.)
4.Rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg (not case sensitive)
5.open syslinux.cfg and
change “PMEDIA=idecd
timeout 50
“ to “PMEDIA=usbflash”

6.Download syslinux-3.36.zip and unzip the files to a directory named syslinux on your computer.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.36.zip

7.Go to the win32 directory of the syslinux folder that was created (\syslinux\win32)
8.Type syslinux.exe F: (replace F with your USB drive letter) to make the drive bootable.
9.Reboot your PC, go into your system BIOS and set your boot order to boot from a selectable USB device. (example USB_ZIP or use USB_HDD)
10.Save your BIOS settings. On the next reboot, you should have a successful launch of Puppy Linux from your USB memory stick.

*Tested on Puppy 215CE, PizzaPup3
Thanks to God, Sit_Heel_Speak, and also pendrivelinux.com,BarryK

So, I have been having a hard time getting puppy to boot up on my laptop. The BIOS DOES have the option to boot from USB, and it lets me try, but when I do it says exactaly "boot error" and that's it. I installed puppy onto my ipod shuffle with the default MBR and everything, but it now says "missing operating system" The Ipod is also where my pup_save's are.

So when you say "Type" syslinux.exe F
or "type" this or that, where exactally and in what operating system am I "type"ing that into?

So, I have been having a hard time getting puppy to boot up on my laptop. The BIOS DOES have the option to boot from USB, and it lets me try, but when I do it says exactaly "boot error" and that's it. I installed puppy onto my ipod shuffle with the default MBR and everything, but it now says "missing operating system" The Ipod is also where my pup_save's are.

So when you say "Type" syslinux.exe F
or "type" this or that, where exactally and in what operating system am I "type"ing that into?

Try my solution:

Format with HP USB Format Tool, select fat32 and select "create dos disk", select a directory where win98 boot files are... then just make the syslinux and copy all files to the usb and try again, that solved all my problems!

So, I have been having a hard time getting puppy to boot up on my laptop. The BIOS DOES have the option to boot from USB, and it lets me try, but when I do it says exactaly "boot error" and that's it. I installed puppy onto my ipod shuffle with the default MBR and everything, but it now says "missing operating system" The Ipod is also where my pup_save's are.

So when you say "Type" syslinux.exe F
or "type" this or that, where exactally and in what operating system am I "type"ing that into?

Someone (not too far away from Glasgow) sent me a PM and asked if I could send them some very basic instructions on this. So anyway I write some and attach below - may be of use to anyone finding in years to come.

Sorry it's a PDF I could not find any other way of formatting it -

If anyone things it's any good I could perhaps ask for a wikki ID and edit it / allow others to put on the Wikki so others can add to it?

I mean the vanilla type SD cards that you stick in the camera or the USB card reader, not the CF IDE cards. It would be nice if you could just burn a Puppy image on a SD card, stick the card into a Eeepc and boot...

Result following rico002's instructions: On boot up, it tries to boot from USB, but fails saying "Boot error." I probably messed up on some small step, but since he wrote it for an earlier version of Puppy . . . Has anyone had success using his instructions to boot 4.0 from USB? If so, did you have to tweek anything? Thank you!

I had to go to DIT today to buy two PCI cards and had him check out my USB thinking maybe it was only 1.0 compliant. It's 2.0, but he said my file probably should not be in .iso form. Silly me, I assumed that since you burned .iso for a Live-CD/DVD that the USB would be the same. When I got home, I expanded the file onto the flash, and here I am! Using my flashdrive to write this! So, cool. Now when I go home next week, I'll be able to take Puppy with me and show him off!

[quote="rico002"]Make bootable usb drive with puppy on it from in Windows (with/without CD/DVD drive)

1.format your stick using the Fat16 or Fat32 file system. To do this you can Download and install the HP USB tool.
By running HPUSBFW.EXE with admin rights you can format the usb drive
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/26504.html

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